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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Whether it is legal or not I don't think publishers should do it. Any association with pirates can do only harm to the publisher's reputation and undermine their own appeals to readers about buying from legitimate sources.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The publisher is in effect saying: We will use a pirated version to avoid paying someone a wage to scan/OCR the paper book, but you should buy the ebook from us even though you could get a pirated version for free.
I think that undermines the publisher's message, even if they are not paying the pirate anything.
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Nothing in the legitimate ebook identifies the source.
I had to compare it to the un-authorised version to come an opinion regarding the source of the legitimate version.
Very few people care about the mechanics of production in determining whether or not to get the legitimate pirated versions of a books.
As things stand with some books, the publishers aren't doing the proofing at all. That doesn't seem to affect sales.